Should the GOP try to give northern Virginia back?

During his 2008 presidential campaign, an adviser to Sen. John McCain famously argued that northern Virginia is not part of the "real Virginia."What if that became true?Republicans are struggling to win statewide office in the commonwealth, most recently losing the governor's race to the less-than-perfect Terry McAuliffe, and they are hampered in large part by Democratic-leaning voters in the growing urban areas around Washington, D.C.As it turns out, much of that land in this now-swing state was supposed to be …